Sailors clean up historic cemetery

Feb. 24, 2013

Navy Petty Officer Clemen Agulto uses a weed trimmer to cut the grass around a cross and headstones at the Guam U.S. Naval Cemetery in East Hagåtña yesterday. About 16 sailors and other volunteers of the Navy's Fleet Air Forward Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Department and Aviation Supply Department cleaned the cemetery and the nearby beachside as a project to promote community relations, said Michael Zamora, a naval aviation instruction mechanic.

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Jerick Sablan
Pacific Sunday News

More than a dozen U.S. Navy service members spruced up the Guam U.S. Naval Cemetery in East Hagåtña yesterday.

The service members from the Fleet Air Forward Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Department and Aviation Supply Department adopted the cemetery as part of an effort to give back to the community.

Sailor Michael Zamora said the cemetery is unique because it's one of the few solely for fallen Navy service members. He said he estimates there are only three Naval cemeteries in the world, including the one on Guam. ...